This was a great read with wonderfully developed characters!! I enjoyed the many twists and turns and it was quite the page turner!

Title: We Won’t All Survive
Author: Kate Alice Marshall
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group/Viking for Young Readers
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Pub Date: July 29, 2025
My Rating: 3.7 Stars
Pages: 336

Mercy Gray was hailed as a hero for saving lives during a mall shooting. She still carries souvenirs from that incident: the fragment of a bullet lodged in her back, a mountain of medical debt, and guilt for ignoring her sister’s warnings that the sweet boy next door was anything but.

Billionaire now wannabe TV-host Damien Dare decided to sponsor a new survivalist reality show “Who Survives” and recruits Mercy Gray as well as seven others. Mercy is a local hero as two years ago she saved lives during a mail shooting. She as well as the others cannot turn down a chance at winning $100,000. Mercy knows this amount of money would allow her to send her sister to college.
When Mercy and the other contestants arrive on location – it is empty. The gates close without warning, they are trapped. They know the contest is for six weeks but something isn’t right!

Then one of them turns up dead.

Story has interesting characters and I was pulling for all of them.

The Epilogue was very interesting!

This is my fourth Kate Alice Marshall. Although not my favorite – I definitely am looking forward to her next story.

Want to thank NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group/Viking for Young Readers for granted me this early eGalley.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for July 29, 2025.

(4.5 stars)
* Tropes/themes
* Survivalist reality competition TV show
* Deserted town
* Trauma
* Trust
* Non-stop action and suspense with tons of twists.
* Never knew who to trust and it kept me on the edge of my seat.
* Intriguing concept.
* Very diverse characters.
* Really hard to put down- I kept saying I’d read one more chapter and before I even realized, I’d read three more.
* Slightly predictable yet incredibly entertaining.
* Content warnings:
* Murder/death
* Violence
* Mass shooting
* Injury/injury detail
* Isolation
* Bigotry

4.5 stars rounded up. I was IMMEDIATELY hooked. Loved the underlying plot point of the 'Nice Guy syndrome'. A bunch of twists and turns without being over-engineered.

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Group for the eARC!

This was a tense, twisty thriller that pulled me in from the first chapter. Mercy, a shooting survivor, joins what she thinks is a survival reality show—but it turns out to be something way darker. No cameras. No crew. Just danger. The characters are complicated and haunted, and the mystery kept me guessing.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

This is a YA book, and I didn't know that before reading it. I think that demographic would enjoy it more. I love Kate Alice Marshall books but didn't love this one.

I’ve read all of the books by this author so I immediately requested it as a fan. I should have read the description cuz I’m not into game show thrillers. They’ve been overdone

I love every book Marshall rights. This one was such a fun ride and I couldn’t put it down! While I figured out the perpetrator fairly early on, I still was surprised by other twists and turns.

Wow! I couldn’t put this one down! I love the idea of how they were all picked because of the traumatic events they survived. I thought it was a really unique story and I really liked all the characters. The setting was really cool. The scene where Milo is sitting right in front of her in the dark was very disturbing.

I am a huge fan of Kate Alice Marshall so I jumped at the chance to read this one. It was written in her normal style and was gripping and suspenseful. I did not realize it was YA until partway through and it is definitely Kate Alice Marshall lite but overall a good read.

This felt like every other novel that has a reality tv setting and a mystery/murder theme. It wasn't bad as such, but just didn't stand out from the crowd. It didn't help that there was no option to download it to kindle, which made the reading process frustrating.

I really enjoy this author! This one was a little too YA for me, but overall I still liked it! I love the twists and the story line was good. 3/5 stars for me!

i don't read a lot of YA but this to me didn't read like one. I was totally engrossed and was very entertained. I totally recommend this book if you like her other books.

This is my fourth Kate Alice Marshall book, and I like her so much that when I saw this on NetGalley, I took advantage of being able to read it early. Like all of her books, it left me completely unable to guess where it was going to go, which is a quality I appreciate when I've read as many books as I have. It really seems like it is going to start off with a reality show survival game plot, but it very quickly zig zags and goes off in a different direction. It also does a nice job of tackling Nice Guy syndrome, including having the main character grapple with the fact that she didn't recognize that she was playing a role in perpetuating it.

Part reality show, part psychological survival game, this is the kind of book that keeps your pulse pounding until the final page.

Mercy Gray just wants to disappear. Once a national hero after stopping a mall shooting, she's now a traumatized shadow of her former self — physically injured, emotionally raw, and drowning in medical debt. When charismatic billionaire-turned-TV-host Damien Dare invites her to join the cast of his latest reality competition, a survivalist-style series with a massive cash prize, she reluctantly agrees. It's supposed to be her fresh start.

But the moment Mercy arrives on set, she knows something is wrong. The “set” is completely barren. No crew. No cameras. Just other contestants — and a chilling silence. Then the gates lock behind them. Without warning. Without explanation.

This isn’t a show. It’s a trap.
And not all of them will make it out alive.

#Penguin #WeWontAllSurvive #DystopianThriller #RealityGoneWrong #katealicemarshall

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

WE WON'T ALL SURVIVE by Kate Alice Marshall

Thank you Netgalley and PenguinTeen for the earc (Jul 29)

8 survivalist. 1 tv show, 1 abandoned town.
Mercy is a hero---two years ago she saved lives during mall sho*ting. Now, she's been invited to compete in a tv show. When she and the other contestants arrive, something doesn't seem right. Then the d*aths start happening.
I loved this book. It was so good and has instantly become my favorite read of the month---perhaps the whole year. WE WON'T ALL SURVIVE is easily devourable and kept me intrigued. I was on the edge of my seat as this thriller progressed, and there was never a dull moment which made it all the more thrilling. The whodunit wasn't as surprising as I had hoped, but there was so many more surprises that made up for this.
WE WON'T ALL SURVIVE is a mix of thrills and chills and survival. There an ample amount of drama, and there's even plenty of secrets to go around. Chef's kiss.

Kate Alice Marshall put together a really good thriller. Thank you netgalley for this ARC.
Mercy enters herself into this new TV reality show in order to get money to send her sister off to college. Mercy’s mom spent all the money they had from an inheritance to save her life when she was shot. Mercy shows up to this ghost town with seven other individuals. Once the gate closes they are on their own to act like a team to survive, but they slowly drop like flies. After getting shot, Mercy has trust issues and doesn’t know who she can count on in the group.

While this didn't pull me in immediately, I was thoroughly hooked by the halfway point! It's a high stakes thriller about teens on a survival reality show that turns dark almost right away. The pace was fast enough to keep my attention. There was just enough information given about each character. Big things kept happening one right after another and really kept me guessing on how it would end. Even though the "big bad guy" of the story wasn't hard to figure out, there were plenty of surprising twists otherwise. Book endings often disappoint me and this one did not. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a thriller that keeps you engaged and guessing until the very end!

Thank you to Penguin Group and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book!

4.5⭐️
First off, big thank you to net galley and penguin house for this ARC.
This book is one that will have you on your toes the whole time.
The characters are deep and well developed, you feel like you’re there with them. The plot twists were unexpected and truly had you gasping out loud. I really enjoyed this book and i’m DEFINITELY going to be reading more by Kate Marshall.

If you like fast paced Young Adult thrillers then this is the book for you. I never wanted it to end because I was so engrossed with the plot and the characters.